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Thursday, 12 February 2015

Hyper-V: Set Up An Internal Network For Host/Guest File and Service Sharing

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Here’s a quick and simple How-To for setting up network communication between a Hyper-V host, both Server and Windows 8/8.1, and any guests....
Monday, 2 February 2015

Sample Client Phish Prevention E-mail

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Here’s a sample of an e-mail we would send to our clients on a semi-frequent basis to help keep users wary and informed. If there is ever ...
Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Business Guidance Pearls Mentoring Opportunity

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Our blog post on Some IT Pro Business Guidance Pearls has generated a _ lot _ of questions! Thank you for that. :) So, how about this? Th...
Thursday, 15 January 2015

Some IT Pro Business Guidance Pearls

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Here are some bits and pieces of business wisdom that I’ve gathered over the years. Much of my initial business formation came from my first...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

SMB Kitchen ASP Author’s Chat: Wednesday the 17th Open To All!

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You are invited to a preview during our SMBKitchen Chat on December 17th 7pm eastern. Download to your calendar now ! Our Chat will introdu...
Thursday, 4 December 2014

Microsoft Ups Support Ticket to $499 – We Have a Great Alternative: Third Tier!

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It seems that this may, or may not, depending on one’s thoughts of how Microsoft sees IT Pros in today’s “Cloud First Mobile First” be anoth...
Monday, 1 December 2014

Cluster: Firewall GPO Settings

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Here are some firewall settings that we configure via GPO for both our AD environment but also for our cluster setups. Domain linked GPO: ...
Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Hey SMB Kitchen ASP Subscribers! Author’s Chat Starts Shortly.

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Sorry about the short notice it has been a banner day for things breaking like power poles and such at client sites. Link for the chat is i...
Wednesday, 29 October 2014

ASP Webinar Today at 1700 MST: Setting up ARR and URL ReWrite for One WAN IP

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We've had a number of requests to do a Webinar specifically on how we get things set up for our Small Business Solution (SBS) whereby we...
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Thursday, 23 October 2014

Azure VMs: A Series Versus D Series

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We’ve been working with our Microsoft Partner Azure credit to see just how it all works as we have a client that needs a highly redundant, s...

SMB Kitchen Content Posted: Exchange Migration Documentation, Cluster Quotes, and Proposal Template

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I’ve published three very significant documents to the ASP SMBKitchen knowledgebase. Exchange Migration Guide The following is the product...
Monday, 20 October 2014

How vCPUs Interact With Physical CPUs - Resources

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Here are some excellent resources on how a hypervisor such as Hyper-V interacts with the CPU pipeline. Brian Ehlert: I.T. Proctology Blog:...
Thursday, 16 October 2014

2 Node 1 JBOD Hyper-V Cluster Connectivity Guide

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Okay, so just how do we wire up that cluster? We connect two SAS cables from each HBA on each node to one expander on the JBOD. We the...
Wednesday, 15 October 2014

ASP Author’s Chat Now

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Sorry folks, been really busy! We have an ASP Author’s Chat starting right now! Philip Elder Microsoft Cluster MVP MPECS Inc. Co-Author: S...
Tuesday, 7 October 2014

What’s New in Windows v.Next

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Here are some resources relative to what may be in the next version of Windows. Note that this list is by far nowhere near complete and rath...
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Our primary IT vertical is accounting firms since 1998. From accounting app support through to highly available solutions for accounting firms we've got it covered. I'm a Microsoft MVP since 2009. First on SBS and then starting in 2014 on Cluster.
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